I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - "London Magazine", March, 1967.
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I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
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Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
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